Anyone know of a good free alternative to Euphoria SDK?

3DModelerMan · Post by **3DModelerMan** » Mon Oct 19, 2009 8:54 pm

Is there any good free or cheap alternative to the Euphoria SDK? It has so many cool features I'm just itching to try and integrate into Irrlicht, but they won't return any of my E-Mails.

CuteAlien · Post by **CuteAlien** » Tue Oct 20, 2009 2:32 pm

There seem to be several software products called euphoria. Maybe someone knows an alternative if you give us a little more detail which one you mean or what it does.

Halifax · Post by **Halifax** » Tue Oct 20, 2009 2:47 pm

I'm pretty sure he is talking about the Euphoria SDK that deals with digital muscle synthesis (DMS) as a way to create dynamic procedural animation. It's a middle-ware, like SpeedTree, and it sits over a physics engine such as PhysX or Bullet.

It was specifically used in GTA IV, and is going to be used in the new upcoming game BackBreaker which is being programmed by the team behind Euphoria.

Now to answer your question, 3DModelerMan, I don't think that there is a free alternative to it, it's a relatively new technology. And they're definitely not going to respond to your e-mails because right now they only work on-site with large studios, such as Rockstar, to integrate it into their engines. At least that's how it was the last time I checked.

cody945x · Post by **cody945x** » Tue Oct 20, 2009 9:38 pm

You forgot about Star Wars: The Force Unleashed.. TFU used it first than GTA IV...

3DModelerMan · Post by **3DModelerMan** » Tue Oct 20, 2009 9:40 pm

Yeah that's what I was talking about. There's a thing called DANCE http://www.arishapiro.com/dance/ I don't know if it's any good.